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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You voted in the current DC leadership.

The current leadership lied to you about the increasing crime rate, while ignoring crime victims entirely.

You created this pro-crime society in DC.

So stop complaining about trump trying to clean up the mess you created.[/quote]

Trump is not addressing crime in DC. Nothing he is doing benefits me as a DC citizen.

The federal law enforcement in DC is primarily focused on on arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants. The vast majority of these are non violent. This is not the primary or even a major source of crime in the area.

The National Guard, which isn't even allowed to arrest citizens and has no jurisdiction over crime, is just walking around or, occasionally, gardening. I mostly see them standing around or, occasionally, arguing with local citizens who are asking them why they are here and pointing out that there is nothing for them to do.

There may be some deterrent impact on crime of the of the sheer volume of NG and federal officers in DC. However, unless the plan is to keep these people in DC indefinitely, that will evaporate the second the go. It's incredibly expensive to have all of these officers and soldiers in DC and is coming at the expense of other national priorities. So they will go, and we will return to the crime issues we had before this stunt, with the same issues of funding and recruitment for MPD, the same problems with community trust, illegal guns on the street, poverty, and violence from the suburbs coming into the city.

He's done nothing. I loath both Muriel Bowser and the DC Council and think they've done a terrible job with crime since the pandemic. But Trump hasn't solved anything here. Like most GOP politicians in DC, he's just using the city as a political football to score points with a constituency who lives far from here and has never set foot in the city.[/quote]

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